Daily Soundtrack: Opening Day, Closing Year

This year’s baseball season started halfway across the world, with a two-game series in Japan between the A’s and the Red Sox. They split. Now the sport has come home for normal old Opening Day. In New York, the season is bittersweet, as both the Mets and Yankees are playing their final seasons in historic sites: the Mets are shuttering Shea Stadium, the team’s home since 1964, and the Yankees are closing up Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923. But this is no time for tears. There’s a whole season to play, beginning with the Yankees’ opener against the Blue Jays today. Reggie Jackson will throw out the first pitch. Below, watch the alt-pop band the Philistines Jr. perform a song named after the famed Yankees slugger.—Ben Greenman

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